What is the educational
software that is used in the school computer labs?

All Odysseia educational software is based on
educational objectives focusing on the development of
critical and creative thinking, on helping students understand difficult and abstract
concepts, and on improving the quality of the educational process.

The development of educational software above all aims at producing
valid, high-quality, user-friendly, digital learning assets, which allows
the students and teachers the liberty to organize and structure their
classes as they wish. The Odysseia programme
develops and produces interdisciplinary
and exploratory educational software , the final objective being to make the computer an indispensable aid and
companion in the daily learning process.

The software produced, is submitted for evaluation:

-to the Certification Office at the Pedagogical Institute for educational
quality and suitability.

-to the Computer Technology Institute for technical quality.

Once the evaluation process has been completed the software is then
distributed to the schools.

Available
educational software

A total of 67 titles for interdisciplinary and exploratory educational
software have been developed to date. These have been designed to cover a
large part of the General and Technical Secondary Education curriculum
program. 17 of these titles are internationally acknowledged software
products that have been localized into Greek and adapted to the Greek
curriculum. The remaining titles have been designed and developed in
Greece by consortia of organizations and companies that combine technical,
educational and productive know-how (universities, research institutes,
computer technology and software companies).The actual software is accompanied by educational activities,
specifically designed and created by teacher educators and teachers
participating in the Odysseia programme.